Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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